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Pocket Kodak

Una aparent insignificant caixa de pell grana és una de les càmeres més antigues i petites que tinc. Es tracta d'una Pocket Kodak, una càmera que fou produïda només el 1895 i 1900. Encara és més interesant pel fet de tractar-se d'un dels exemplars inicials de la Pocket Kodak de 1895 i a sobre en el poc usual color vermell fosc. Emprava el format de pel·licula 102. Obviament fa decades que no s'en fabrica, però tinc l'esperança de potser poder-hi adaptar pelicula del format 35mm.

 

Les caracteristiques de la primerissima variant de la Pocket Kodak, que aquest exemplar té, son visor circular, guies internes de feltre i obturador de sector Tisdell encaixat al porta-pelicula. I a sobre, es tracta d'una càmera que porta detalls personalitzats pels primers propietaris, concretament el seu nom, cosa que m'encanta. A la part superior i posterior del cuiro es pot llegir el nom Stanbeny o Sranbety.

 

El extra personal és que aquestes Pocket Kodak son força valuoses, entre 200 i 400 €, i aquesta la vaig aconseguir a cert lloc gros d'internet per una fracció (molt fracció) d'aquest preu.

 

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Kodak_(1895)

 

www.camarassinfronteras.com/kodak_pocket/kodak_pocket.html

 

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An apparent insignificant red leather box is one of the oldest and smallest cameras I have. It is a Pocket Kodak 1895 model, a camera that was produced only between 1895 and 1900. It is still more interesting because it is one of the initial versions of the Pocket Kodak, that of early 1895 and even more, in the unusual dark red leather. It used the 102 film format. Obviously, this format has not been manufactured for decades, but I hope that it can be adapted to the 35mm format.

 

The characteristics of this very first variant of the Pocket Kodak, which this one has, are a round viewfinder, internal fellt guides, plain metal flaps and a Tisdell sector shutter. I love also the unique detail that this camera has the name of one of the early owners. At the top and back of the leather you can read, scratched, the name Stanbeny or Sranbety.

 

As a plus, these Pocket Kodak are quite valuable, between 200 and 400 €, and this I got it in a certain large-known-to-all website for a fraction (very small fraction) of this price.

 

vieilalbum.com/KodakPocket1895US.htm

 

www.kodaksefke.nl/pocket-kodak.html

 

www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C447.html

 

www.camarassinfronteras.com/kodak_pocket/kodak_pocket.html

 

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